SlaveUtils.SendRemoteCommand with arguments

Deadline
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Trying to run vray.exe + arguments but can’t get it to work properly

This is what i have at the moment:
SlaveUtils.SendRemoteCommand(machineName, "Execute ““C:/Program Files/Autodesk/Maya2016/vray/bin/vray.exe -server -portNumber=20207"””)

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What errors are you getting? I would suggest single quotes for strings (it’s more “pythonic”) and to escape the quotes.

Try this:

 SlaveUtils.SendRemoteCommand(machineName, 'Execute \"C:/Program Files/Autodesk/Maya2016/vray/bin/vray.exe\" -server -portNumber=20207')

That said, wouldn’t you want to submit a V-Ray DR job? That’ll let you monitor how long it’s been running, who submitted it, have Deadline restart V-Ray, etc etc. It’s what it’s there for.

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Thanks for this. I didn’t know much about the DBR setup through deadline. I have set this up now and seems to be working fine. Although DBR doesnt seem to support the overscan override in vray. renders black or mismatched buckets.

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That’s Interesting. If you only use the submitter from the Monitor to start V-Ray but set up the render settings as you did before does it make any difference? I can’t imagine what we would be doing to V-Ray to disable that sort of feature. As far as I know, we’re just starting the Spawner, and in the case of Swarm adding some tags to the nodes.